Judith Ellen Foster Quotes

United States, Lecturer
November 3, 1840 – August, 11, 1910.

Judith Ellen Horton Foster was an American lecturer, temperance worker, and lawyer. She is thought to be the first woman in Iowa who was actually engaged in practice and the fourth woman admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Iowa. In her time she was known as "The Iowa Lawyer".

Also known as Lawyer

The cultivation of one set of faculties tends to the disuse of others. The loss of one faculty sharpens others; the blind are sensitive in touch. Has not the extreme cultivation of the commercial faculty permitted others as essential to national life, to be blighted by disease?

Judith Ellen Foster
Party action should follow, not precede the creation of a dominant popular sentiment.

Judith Ellen Foster
- Party
- Creation
- Precede

Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on the hustings as at the fireside.

Judith Ellen Foster
- Women
- Politics
- Sentiment
It is too late in the century for women who have received the benefits of co-education in schools and colleges, and who bear theirfull share in the world's work, not to care who make the laws, who expound and who administer them.

Judith Ellen Foster
- World
- Work
- Women
The country needs the political work of women today as much as it has ever needed woman in any other work at any other time.

Judith Ellen Foster
- Work
- Women
- Country